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Those discoveries led to all sorts of competing theories, but few archaeologists or anthropologists took them seriously until 1997. In that year, a blue-ribbon panel of researchers took a hard look at evidence presented by Tom Dillehay, then at the University of Kentucky, from a site he had been excavating in Monte Verde, Chile. After years of skepticism, the panel finally affirmed his claim that the site proved humans had lived there 12,500 years ago. "Monte Verde was the turning point," says David Meltzer, a professor of prehistory at Southern Methodist University in Dallas...
...words of Adrienne M. White ’08, BAF’s Jazz Brunch coordinator, “This is a chance to learn more about black communities’ own culture, their past, and their potential for creativity.” On Friday, there will be a panel discussion entitled “Redemption Songs: The Relationship between Black Art and Activism in the 21st century,” sponsored by BAF, the Black Students Association, and the Institute of Politics. The panel will include talks by guest speakers Uzodinma Iweala and Chandra Ortiz, and will be moderated...
...importance of academic discourse and scholarship over direct University aid in the cause of disaster relief at a symposium on natural and unnatural disasters yesterday. The “In Harm’s Way” symposium, sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, featured four panel discussion groups, which considered topics ranging from social vulnerability patterns to the pending threat of avian bird flu. Summers, a featured speaker at the symposium, said that Harvard’s focus should not be on providing direct financial and logistical assistance to relief efforts. He cautioned against duplicating...
...interests camouflage their mission under the banner of a worthy-sounding cause. The council is directed by one of Washington's premier tax lobbyists, Kenneth J. Kies, managing director of the Clark Consulting Federal Policy Group. A former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional panel that oversees the drafting of tax laws, Kies is well situated to guide legislation that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a word...
...TIME that officials were close to a deal involving the Congressional leadership, the White House and the Dubai company. The agreement would call for a 45-day ?CFIUS-plus investigation,? King said, referring to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a Treasury Department-run interagency panel that probes proposed acquisitions...